Daily Archives: November 26, 2007

Hope everyone’s first day back to school went well. I spent the second half of my day sitting in a district conference room with the district IT staff discussing Clean Sweep vs. Deep Freeze as well as the use of Altiris within the district in which I work. Nothing like a half day on your

In the continuing spirit of Thanksgiving, why don’t you consider giving up some time to volunteer to help out at our state technology conference, PETE&C . . . Jim Gates posted the following call for help on his blog today and I thought that I’d pass it along to all of you. Ever since last

Just received the exciting news that our very own DEN STAR Judith Valle will have a video she made highlighted on the Travel Channel tonight! Thousands of people have uploaded their 5 minute video trips to their website and she is one of the chosen few that will be aired on the Travel Channel Show called

Join us, this Wednesday, November 28th, when Celestia Cazalet presents ‘Profiling: It Can Be a Good Thing’. The workshop will take a look at all the information on an avatar’s profile, how to update it, add picks, make notes about other avatars, and explore the reasons why a profile should be completed — at least a little! Time:

I apologize for the late notice, but I just received the news that there will be an airing of a very special video tonight on the Travel Channel (a Discovery Communications channel). It was made by our very own Judith Valle, a Texas STAR Educator and an events planner for the Texas DEN LC! Thousands

No, I’m not writing about Hall or me. While perusing a StreamingMedia email I ran across an article by Paul Rismandel, the manager of digital media production for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Coincidentally, today I was going to blog about a writing program down there

We have finally nailed down our plans for a DEN Social Event at TETC in Nashville! Woohoo! You are invited to meet us on Thursday evening, November 29th, at 7 PM at Caffeine, a local wifi hotspot near the Convention Center. Bring your laptops! We want to spend some time sharing resources and drinks (not

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I pride myself on my lectures. I was voted “Best Lecturer” in the 2013 Sherwood High School yearbook. I’ve been told that my lectures are easily understood, engaging, interactive with plenty of student discourse–and I’m pretty darn funny! My students consistently scored very well on the Advanced Placement U.S. history exam. So what’s the issue? Lecturing works.